This march, arranged by Carlo Martelli, was composed during the American civil war to celebrate the Yankee invasion of the seceding Southern states.
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This march, arranged by Carlo Martelli, was composed during the American civil war to celebrate the Yankee invasion of the seceding Southern states.
This march, arranged by Carlo Martelli, was composed during the American civil war to celebrate the Yankee invasion of the seceding Southern states.
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Carlo Martelli was born on the 12th December 1935 in London to an Italian father and an English mother. By the age of eleven Carlo had developed a passion for the symphony orchestra. Just before his twelfth birthday he started taking regular violin lessons and very soon began writing elaborate orchestral scores achieving a mastery in this field by the age of sixteen, by which time he had obtained a County Scholarship to attend the Royal College of Music in London, studying composition and viola. By the time he was 21 he had written a string quartet and had already had a great deal of success with several large scale serious symphonic compositions, notably his Second Symphony, which had many performances and broadcasts by several major orchestras in the few years after its completion. In the 1960's he turned to film music to make a living, and also worked steadily as a freelance viola player. His arrangements for string quartet, trio and other combinations number well over 250 and are played by hundreds of groups all over the world.
The Passepied is a dance that originated in France and resembles the minuet. This example, arranged by Carlo Martelli from Debussy's Suite Bergamasque, represents a late flowering and highly sophisticated version of the form.
This sprightly piece, arranged by Carlo Martelli, is from Chabrier's Suite Pastorale, originally composed for the pianoforte and later transcribed for orchestra by the composer.
Vivaldi was a prominent violinist of his day, and this is reflected in his work which is predominately for the string family. The most well known of all his compositions is The Four Seasons, a set of four violin concertos of which this present arrangement by Carlo Martelli is the third.
Bruch, Max Christian Friedrich
Bruch arr. Martelli – Adagio from Violin Concerto in G Minor (String Quartet)
In this arrangement by Carlo Martelli of the beautiful slow movement of Bruch's Violin Concerto the solo part is unchanged and the orchestral part arranged for the other three players.
Davies, Henry Walford
This rousing march, arranged by Carlo Martelli, was written by the then 'Master of the King's Music' to celebrate the R.A.F. victory over Hitler's Luftwaffe in September 1940. For secondary schools, colleges, conservatories and professionals.
Two concert suites were made out of the beautiful and highly picturesque L'Arlésienne music. The Farandole, which concludes the second suite and is here arranged by Carlo Martelli, is a spirited circle dance of Provençal derivation.